Hansons: The Library Auction, 91025, Etwall, Derbyshire

Auction Details

Auction Date: September 10, 2025 - September 10, 2025

Page Size: 224 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
101		The Russo-Turkish War Including an Account of the Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Power	London	n.d. c. 1880	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 32.50
102		The Correspondence of Henry Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and his Brother Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester	London	1828	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.00
103	BROUGHAM, Henry Lord	Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III...	London	1839	GBP 40.00 - 60.00	GBP 27.50
104		Bentley's Miscellany...	London	1838	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	Not Sold
105		Biographia Britannia: or, the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland...	London	1793	GBP 60.00 - 90.00	GBP 81.25
106	[STORER, James Sargent]	The Antiquarian Itinerary...	London	1815 - 1818	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 75.00
107		An Account of the Battle of Waterloo	London	1815	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 193.75
108		The Fleet Reviewed by His Majesty King George V at Spithead Saturday June 24th 1911	Portsmouth	1911	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 131.25
109	KNIGHT, Henry Gally	A Letter Addressed to the Earl of Aberdeen...	London	1830	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 25.00
110		Committee on High Angle and Vertical Fire From Rifled Howitzers and Mortars			GBP 60.00 - 90.00	GBP 40.00
111		18th century satirical/literary magazines...			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 100.00
112	NAPIER, W. F. P.	History of the War in the Peninsula	Brussels	1839	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 112.50
113	Lady Bourchier (his daughter), editor	Memoir of the Life of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington...	London	1873	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 131.25
114		The Autobiography of a Seaman...	London	1861	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 106.25
115		Diplock's Hand-Book For Hastings, St. Leonard's & Their Neighbourhood...			GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 131.25
116	H. W. Maw and J. Dredge, editors	Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal...	London	1882-1899	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 143.75
117		Literary, cultural, political, and intellectual magazines, dating from 1890s, 1940s-1960s			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 35.00
118		Literary, cultural, political, and intellectual magazines, dating from 1910s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 35.00
119		Literary, cultural, political, and intellectual magazines, dating from 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 81.25
120		Literary, cultural, political, and intellectual magazines, dating from 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s...			GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 52.50
121	GILLMAN, James	The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge...	London	1838	GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 20.00
122		Collection of publications related to the Jacobite Rising of 1745, from an anti Jacobite perspective	London	1745	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 181.25
123		A Letter From Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly...	London	1791	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 25.00
124		Dreadnought and Royal Navy		c. 1906	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 231.25
125		Shipping Interest: Speech of the Right Hon. W. Huskisson in the House of Commons Monday the 7th of May 1827...	London	1827	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 25.00

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.